Patrickromanet

8 Logical Fallacies That Fuel Anti-Science Sentiments. I've never been so angry at an appeal to faith as when I read a peice in the Watchtower (Jehovah's Witness mag) on global warming.

It presented both sides equally ("Some people belive this... Some people belive that...
") but what made me throw it across the room was the conclusion, which was basically, "Whether global warming is man-made or natural, it doesn't matter because god will protect us and make sure we're not hurt by it.
" This particular piece of dreck was delivered to my door by a Jehovah's Witness who made his five year old son do all the talking.
Rethinking the role of the strategist. Many companies have an executive to guide their strategies.

The discipline’s professionalization, which began in earnest in the 1980s as it evolved from the chief executive’s domain into a core corporate function, prompted the creation of heads of strategy, strategic-planning directors, and, more recently, chief strategy officers (CSOs). Who better than a professional strategist to help meet the big new uncertainties of the 21st century?
She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder.
Gone are the days when ISIS could take down cities in an instant.

Satellite imagery: NASA In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands, rock clusters and cays that collectively are called the Spratly Islands.
China's Island Factory. Management intuition for the next 50 years. Intuition forms over time.

When McKinsey began publishing the Quarterly, in 1964, a new management environment was just beginning to take shape. On April 7 of that year, IBM announced the System/360 mainframe, a product with breakthrough flexibility and capability. Then on October 10, the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the first in history to be telecast via satellite around the planet, underscored Japan’s growing economic strength. Finally, on December 31, the last new member of the baby-boom generation was born.

Fifty years later, the forces symbolized by these three disconnected events are almost unrecognizable. We stand today on the precipice of much bigger shifts in each of these areas, with extraordinary implications for global leaders. Any one of these shifts, on its own, would be among the largest economic forces the global economy has ever seen. Forces at work In an article of this length, we can only scratch the surface of the massive forces at work.